Fdip249: The Running Gene

Published: Oct. 24, 2010, 4 a.m.

b'In the area of genetics and with respect to athletics, we are trying to understand what construction instructions are required to build the perfect runner.\\xa0 It would seem that certain attributes exist which we can use to measure the influence of our genetic blue prints to create faster humans\\u2026and that our ethnic origins might predict who of us will be able to run faster and farther.\\xa0 But the fact is that we are an infant species, descended from the same Mitochondrial Eve who ran across the African savannah 150,000 years ago\\u2026and we\\u2019re all related, we all have the same basic building instructions, the same Deoxyribonucleic acid and each of us, everyone: has the same set of running genes.\\xa0\\nLinks:\\nThe song \\u201cThat Spells DNA\\u201d was by Jonathan Coulton \\nChannel Runner Review: B-Hag Running PodCast'